If you've read the papers, watched the news or turned on your computer I am sure you have heard the 'scandal' surrounding Donald Sterling. Mr. Sterling made very politically incorrect comments regarding other ethnicities he doesn’t seem to like and African Americans, Hispanics and every other race are bewildered by the comments he made. But has anybody stopped to think that Mr. Sterling is actually playing all of us considering that this 'scandal' just happened to net him a cool one billion dollars. Mr. Sterling has always been an extremely astute businessman. From his early days as a poor teenager, to his law practice - where he changed his last name from Tokowitz to Sterling to be more memorable. In 1981 he bought the San Diego Clippers, at the advice of the Lakers owner Jim Buss and then he moved the team from San Diego to Los Angeles without the consent of the NBA, because he knew that if he asked for permission he would never get it. The league fined him $25 million dollars and he countersued the League for $100 million. The NBA settled the issue for just 6 million dollars. Brilliant move. Having a NBA team was only another source of making money for Mr. Sterling he took advantage of the League drafts practices (of last place teams obtaining first draft picks), to sell players to other teams for a nice profit. Sterling has shown time and time again to be a shrewd businessman and what better way to raise the price of his team? This entire debacle has only created a very willing group of prospectors who want to buy his team for much more than he would normally get. The Los Angeles Clippers was previously valued at $400 million and now we have heard that he is getting figures in the $1 billion dollars range. I refuse to believe that a super savvy businessman like Mr. Sterling would let Ms. Stiviano cause all this headaches for him, exposing his racists views, without initially having a plan in mind. It is possible that she did not even know she was being played. The only aspect of this whole mess that I believe Mr. Sterling didn’t calculate was that his team was going to be making it to the second round of the 2014 Playoff which might be the result of his players being 'inspired' to teach him a lesson - which, ironically, only means that Mr. Sterling’s profits even greater. Some of you might be thinking: 'What about the fact that he will be seen as the racist pig that he is?' Do you think he cares about that? He could probably buy his own island like Richard Branson did and spend the rest of his days away from the masses of people who have grown to hate him. It seems that we have been all played again by an astute businessman who knew how to manipulate our emotions and in the process make over a billion dollars in profits. Think about it.